Oficina de teatro: aporte para o desenvolvimento da linguagem

Abstract

My constitution of life space and my formation during childhood, adolescence and adulthood at a slum was the driving force that created in me concerns, interests and motivation in order to develop this research. In this work, I aimed at presenting the development of a research which sought to show the linguistic development and the production of children’s and adolescent’s knowledge living in the neighborhood where I lived, where there is a social project called Curumim developed by Associação Municipal de Apoio Comunitário – AMAC, by Juiz de Fora Mayor, Minas Gerais. The goal was to investigate whether the acting classes, such as the ones offered by Curumim, would offer effective contributions for the development of the communicative competence of students. The route to collect the data during the classes occurred by the notes on the field diary, beliefs questionnaires; socioeconomic questionnaires and audio electronic recording. These resources equipped the data collection and took part in a sample that constituted the corpus which composed this research. The acting class is not a traditional Portuguese class, however, as a textual genre, it includes several aspects that are able to help to develop a work inclined to reflect about the language, through the principles of Educational Sociolinguistics, mainly contemplating a work through a culturally sensitive pedagogy (BORTONI-RICARDO, 2004) able to take to the children from this community possibilities of enlarging their language competence. Furthermore, the classes bring characteristics that are essentially specific of children’s sociocultural context, because the activities are conducted from what is significative for them.